Rosemary Sweet.

Rosemary Sweet. The English Town, 1680-1840: restraint Society, and Culture. (Themes in British Social History.) Harlow: Longman; dist. according to Pearson Education, Essex. 1999. Pp xiii, 287 $1699 ISBN 0-582-31712-6

"What would I not give to papal court Athens!" enthused a young English aristocrat-a fictional personage, representing a "New Generation" sorely in ne of education. His companion, a mysterious stranger, replied, shrugging slightly: "I have seen it and more astonishing things. Phantoms and spectres! The Age of Ruins is past. Have you seen

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